“It's noteworthy that most Minnesota school districts don't have this programming. So guidance is significantly less for our teaching and learning team and we've actually been playing a lead role in supporting the state as they guide immersion programs.”

“And as you know, reading is a complex skill made up of several subs skills. add writing in there and there's really a lot to consider when you're designing programming that supports biiteracy um especially when it starts initially in a language that's probably o other than what the students speak at home.”

“So, our teachers looked at the Spanish side, made sure, okay, is this actually teaching Spanish uh in an evidence-based way, explicitly, systematic, cumulatively, and their word study side of things is where they kind of, you know, we wanted to make sure that was really strong because we knew that was a need.”

“The 2026 27 calendar along with the 202728 calendar both prove to be a bit more challenging. Um, back to the comments that Superintendent Law just said, just with Labor Day coming so late in the year, this for 2728, it'll be September 7th.”

“This year, there was an official recommendation to bring that back and we took a vote on it because there were varying opinions. We have 27 members on the calendar committee and 16 people voted in favor to move it forward to observe Chinese Lunar New Year.”

“I know a bunch of students who um observe this holiday. And I know that um not like complaining, but they've definitely raised a lot of concern uh for like the late night that it goes into because they do not take the day off of school. So, they are celebrating with their families later into the evening. Um, so they just don't have enough time to do their homework and catch up on school work that evening.”